Author Archives: alexcase

Silence in the ELT classroom

Posted on 10/06/2012 by alexcase

Scott Thornbury has signed off for the summer (rather early, quite frankly!) with a typically thought-provoking piece on the topic: S is for Silence by S is for Scott Thornbury about to go on his S for Summer Holiday And … Continue reading →

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More Olympics worksheets and teaching ideas

Posted on 08/06/2012 by alexcase

Here’s the new stuff: Article Olympics Ideas Two: Beyond sports Worksheets General meanings of sporting words Sports idioms Improving the Olympics Debates on the topic of sport Explaining sports speaking game Mini-presentations on the topic of sport Olympics statistics pairwork … Continue reading →

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Five years, four million page views!

Posted on 04/06/2012 by alexcase

To put that into some kind of perspective, this single video from fellow Japan-based TEFLers Super Simple Songs has had 125 million hits on Youtube, most of my hits are for worksheets on my blog rather than actual blogging, and … Continue reading →

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Animals lessons with EFL young learners

Posted on 02/06/2012 by alexcase

Such a great topic that I got two articles out of it: Teaching animal vocab (disappeared off the site, will try to put up later) and Teaching other language through the topic of animals – LINK FIXED

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Official launch of English Teaching Amateur magazine

Posted on 27/05/2012 by alexcase

The publishers of English Teaching Professional magazine have finally realized how unsuitable and off-putting that title is for large swathes of the English teaching “profession” and so have launched a title for the rest of us, especially: – People who … Continue reading →

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Teaching English for sport/ English through sport

Posted on 27/05/2012 by alexcase

As there’s this little thing which I will be calling the Lundun ‘Lympics* coming up, have been working on some ideas for it. Part one is this article, including how to link almost any grammar point in with it: How … Continue reading →

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My sports worksheets

Posted on 25/05/2012 by alexcase

Someone tells me there is some kind of sports event happening soon, so thought I may as well put links to all my relevant materials in one place. A mix of stuff originally used with young learners and adults – … Continue reading →

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Japan in the Korean EFL classroom

Posted on 23/05/2012 by alexcase

A very specific topic, I know, but as I was already back here when someone from KoTESOL’s The English Connection magazine asked me to write something, it was the first thing that popped into my head. Hopefully of more general … Continue reading →

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Getting students to ask you questions

Posted on 17/05/2012 by alexcase

Analysis of why they don’t ask questions even when they have them and some possible solutions just up here: Dealing with students who are reluctant to ask questions

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A special code for remembering students' details

Posted on 14/05/2012 by alexcase

A lot of teachers write words next to student names on the class register to remember who they are, but there can be problems with using whole words such as students seeing what is written and being offended. A personal … Continue reading →

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